Round 5: Tossup 17

Robert Nozick named his view that truth is not timeless in analogy to a concept from this field in his last book, Invariances. Independently of C. S. Pierce, this field inspired Karl Popper to describe “generating conditions” that have a “propensity” of producing outcomes. David Deutsch modified a thought experiment from a paper in this field called “Remarks on the Mind-Body Question,” in which one asks a (15[1])(*) friend to perform an experiment and report the result. (10[1])The “Transformative Hermeneutics” (10[1])of an extension of this field title Alan Sokal’s (10[1])Social Text article. A theory in this subfield is opposed by Hugh Everett’s many-worlds theory and by the claim that “God does not play dice with the universe.” For 10 points, name this subfield of physics (10[1])whose Copenhagen interpretation was critiqued by Erwin Schrödinger. ■END■

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